Every pmax i've had had netbsd installed via local cdrom. I've found that the 12x Pioneer with a
512/2048 jumper works flawlessly on everything i've tried including pmax, Suns (old), and sgi (old
and new).
-Courtney

> > : How very odd!  I too am having the same problem with my 5000/240 box!  I'm going to grab
> > : the another SCSI cdrom and see if that helps.
> > 
> > Many CD drives (even if they *supposedly* support 512 byte/sector booting)
> > simply don't want to CD boot with various revisions of the pmax (and vax)
> > PROMs.
> > 
> > It's nothing bad about the CDs, that I can tell; it's simply the difference
> > in drives.
> > 
> > -- 
> > -- Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>  *  Wasabi & NetBSD:  Run with it.
> > -- CDs, Integration, Embedding, Support -- http://www.wasabisystems.com/
> 
> I have *never* gotten any pmax to boot the install off the cdrom.  I just gave up on it..  The
> *good* news is that the "helper disk" method works dflawlessly every single time.


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